I Lost It at the Movies by Pauline Kael

Description

I Lost It at the Movies is a 1965 compendium of movie reviews written by Pauline Kael, later a film critic from The New Yorker.

The book was published prior to Kael’s long stint at The New Yorker; as a result, the pieces in the book are culled from radio broadcasts that she did while she was at KPFA, as well as numerous periodicals. It contains her negative review of the then-widely acclaimed West Side Story, glowing reviews of other movies such as The Golden Coach and Seven Samurai, and longer polemical essays such as her largely negative critical responses to Siegfried Kracauer’s Theory of Film and Andrew Sarris’s Film Culture essay “Notes on the Auteur Theory, 1962.”

This is a first-edition, hardcover edition in great condition. There is some edge wear to the book jacket, as shown in the photos. And there is some writing, and some erased writing, on the first page.

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